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“Initials Only” * By Anna Katherine Grene
J Thrilling Mystery Story of Modern Times
r-mvright, 1911. Street * Smith.)
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
\S he approached the doorstep, his
irJ involuntarily formed an anticipa
mage of the child whose first
'.'..■ches in embroidery were lik,e a fairy's
. .. ng to the strong man who worked
*”..’r, and possibly figured out bridges.
p, at S he would prove to be of the anemic
common among working girls gifted
"..'•I, an imagination they have but scant
. .„ttv to exercise, he had little
jppot tuniij iv
loitbt
He wtts therefore taken aback
~-en at his first step upon the
( h the door before him flew open,
, r 'l he beheld in the dark recess be
vn(i a young woman vs such
bright and blooming beauty that he
hardly noticed her expression of extreme
anxiety, till she lifted her hand and laid
in admonitory finger softly on her lip:
• Hush!” she whispered, with an earn
fS!ness which roused him from his ab
sorption anil restored him to the full
meaning of this encounter. “There is
sickness in the house and we are very
anxious. Is your errand an important
pnp - If not ” The faltering break in
the fresh, young voice, the look she cast
behind her into the darkened interior,
were eloquent with the hope that he would
■cognize her impatience and pass on.
And so he might have done,—so he
ivouid have done under all ordinary cir
cumstances. But if this was Doris—and
he c .1 not doubt the fact after that first
m. ment of startled surprise—how dare he
fnrego this opportunity of settling the
iuestion which had brought him here.
With a slight stammer but otherwise
e \ ing no evidence of the effect made upon
y in pj the passionate intensity with
which site had urged this plea, he as
sured her that his errand was important,
I ,nr so quickly told that it would de
hor bin a moment. “But first." said
1> with very natural caution, “let me
n ike sure that it is to Miss Doris Scott
I „m speaking. My errand is to her and
her only.”
Wiihout showing any surprise, perhaps
' engrossed in her own thoughts to feel
aro she answered with simple directness,
■ Ye-. lam Doris Scott.” Whereupon lie
b his most persuasive self, and pull
ing out a folded paper from his pocket,
m.'ned it and held it before her. with
these words:
Then will you be so good as to glance
at this letter and tell me if the person
wose initials you will find at the bottom
btti'wns 'o be in town at the present mo
ment?"
In sonic astonishment now. she glanced
■wn ai the sheet thus boldly thrust be
f.re her. and recognizing the (hand the
B .■■ a well-known signature, she flashed
i I ■•!> back at Sweetwater in which he
read a confusion of emotions for which
he was hardly prepared.
Ah.” thought he. "it's coming In an-
• ••er moment I shall hear what will re
: ' no for the trials and disappointments
■' all these months.”
R‘;i the moment passed and he had
■nd nothing. Instead, she dropped her
har.. - from the door jamb and gave such
• • ■ <liable evidences of Intended flight,
■ it b it one alternative remained to him;
he became abrupt.
Thrusting the paper still nearer, he
with an emphasis which could not
fid "f making an impression. "Read it.
? ad the whole letter. You will find your
true there This communication was ad
•ssed to Miss Chailoner, but—”
<>h. now she found words! With a low
1 : she put out her hand in quick en
treaty. begging him to desist and not
siieak that name on any pretext or for
purpose. "He may rouse and hear."
explained, with another quick look be
"rd her. “The doctor says that this is
|| 'tiiical day. He may become con-
- any minute. If he should and were
that name, it might kill him "
Hr Sweetwater perked up his ears,
"hom do you mean by he?"
■dr. Brotherson, my patient, he whose
But here her impatience rose
ame every other consideration. With
■ ttempting to finish her sentence, or
- in the least to her curiosity or
;n 'bis man's errand, she cried
•' ' smothered Intensity, "Go! go! 1
i.' i stay another moment from his
11 ■ a thunderbolt could not have
y ■ Swetwater after the hearing of
,'.n “Mr. Brotherson!" he echoed.
•mt -'Tson! \ot Orlando?”
"”■ hsi name Is Oswald. He's
U ■ l . n ? , " as *‘ l nf ,hes e works. He's sick
'* I'hoid. We are caring for him. If
1 t-'cd here you would know that
there! that's his voice you hear.
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Go. if you have any mercy." And she
began to push to the door.
But Sweetwater was impervious to all
hint. With eager eyes straining into the
shadowy depths just visible over her
shoulder, he listened eagerly for the dis
jointed words now plainly to be heard in
some near-by but unseen chamber
“The second O. B !” he inwardly de
clared. "And he’s a Brotherson also, and
sick. Miss Scott," he whisperingly en
treated as her hand fell in manifest de
spair from the door, "don’t send me away
yet. Ive a question of the greatest im
portance to put you. and one minute more
can not make any difference to hint.
Listen! those cries ape the cries of de
lirium; he can not miss you; he's not even
conscious."
He s calling out in his sleep. He's
calling her. Just as he has called for the
last two weeks. But he will wake con
scious—or he will not wake at all."
The anguish trembling in that latter
phrase would have attracted Sweetwa
ter's earnest, if not pitiful, attention at
any other time, but now he had ears only
for the cry which at that moment came
ringing shrilly from within—
" Edith! Edith!"
The living shouting for the dead! A
heart still warm sending forth its longing
to the pierced and pulseless one. hidden in
a far-off tomb! To Sweetwater, who had
seen Miss Chailoner buried, this sum
mons of distracted love came with wferd
force.
Then the present regained its sway. He
heard her name again, and this time it
sounded less like a call and more like the
welcoming cry of meeting spirits. Was
death to end this separation? Had he
found the true O. 8., only to behold an
other and final seal full upon this closely
folded mystery? In his fear of this pos
sibility, he caught at Doris’ hand as she
was about to bound away, and eagerly
asked:
"When was Mr. Brotherson taken ill?
Tell me, I entreat you; the exact day and,
if you can. the exact hour. More de
pends upon this than you can readily
realize.”
She wrenched iter hand from his, pant
ing with impatience and vgaue alarm.
But she answered him distinctly;
“On the 25th of last month, just an
hour after he was made manager. He
fell in a faint at the Works."
The day—the very day of Miss Chal
loner's death!
"Had he heard—did you tell him then
or afterwards what happened in New
York on that very date?”
"No. no; we have not told him. It
would have killed him—and may yet."
"Edith! Edith!" came again through
the hush, a. hush so deep that Sweet
water received the Impression that the
house was empty save for patient and
nurse.
This discovery had its effect upon him.
Why should he subject this young and
loving girl to further pain? He had al
ready learned more than he had expected
to. The rest would come with time. But
at the first intimation he gave of leaving,
she lost her abstracted air and turned
with absolute eagerness toward him.
“One moment," said she. "You are a
stranger and I do not know your name or
your purpose here. But I can not let you
go without begging you not to tnention to
any one in this town that Mr. Brotherson
has any interest in the lady whose name
we must not speak. Do not repeat that
delirious cry you have heard or betray
in any way our intense and feaftul in
terest in this young lady's strange death.
You have shown me. a letter. Do not
speak of that letter, I entreat you. Help
us to retain our secret a little longer.
Only the doctor and myself know what
awaits Mr. Brotherson if he lives. I
had to tell the doctor, but a doctor reveals
nothing. Promise that you will either, at
least till this crisis is passed. It will
help my father and it will help me: and
we need all the help we can get."
Sweetwater allowed himself one minute
of thought, then he earnestly replied:
“I will keep your secret for today, and
longer, If possible.”
“Thank you." she cried: "thank you
I thought I saw kindness in your face.”
And she again prepared to close the door.
But Sweetwater had one more ques
tion to ask. “Pardon me." said he, as he
stepped down on the walk, “you say that
this is a critical day with your patient.
Is that why every one whom I have seen
so far wears such a look of anxitey?”
"Yes. yes.” she cried, giving him one
other glimpse of her lovely, agitated face.
"There’s but one feeling in town today,
but one hope. and. as 1 beleive, but one
prayer. That the man whom every one
loves and evert one trusts may live to
run these Works.”
"Edith! Edith!" rose in ceaseless re
iteration from within."
But it rang but faintly now in the cars
of our detective. The doors had fallen to.
and Sweetwater's share in the anxieties
of that household was over.
To Be Continued in Next Issue.
Dessert * * By Nell Brinkley
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Do You Know—
A popular actress is said to indulge
daily in a bath of sea, water, milk and
attar of roses, and a famous American
society beauty spends over $25,000 a
year on baths of Parma violet perfume,
of which she reckons to use one gallon
per '‘tub." The craze for "flower
1 baths.” indeed, has grown so great in
New York that a “hydropath" has been
opened where you can obtain a bath of
boiled roses, or lily of the valley, or
pine needles and violets, or any of a
score of other “flower dips” you may
fancy.
Adeline Genee will shortly depart on
a six months' tour in America. Dur
ing the tour she will travel 28.000
miles, and in order to avoid fatigue she
is engaging a special carriage on the
train for herself, in which she will
spend all the time when she is not on
the stage. Mlle. Genee will have a sit
ting room, bed room, bath room and
dining room, with a chef to attend sole
ly to her needs throughout the jour
ney. “I do this," says the little lady,
“to obviate the unnecessary fatigue
Incidental on a constant change of ho
tels on my tour.”
A pet cat belonging to Miss Christie
Macdonald, the actress, has been given
a remarkable funeral. The eat, which
was named Prow, went to sleep in the
actress' trunk and somebody shut down
the lid, with the result that the animal
was suffocated. The actress ordered a
rosewood and silver coflin. costing SSOO.
from a firm of undertakers in New
York, and in this the cat was buried.
According to recent statistics, Ger
many is a nation of lawbreakers. It
appears that one person out of every
twelve has been convicted for some
transgression of the law. One girl out
of every 213, one boy out of 43. one
woman out of 25. and one man out of
six have come into conflict with the. au
thorities over some detail or other of
German law.
A wealthy and somewhat eccentric
ex-deputy, M. t'arret, who retired from
political life in Prance many years ago
to live in an Alpine grotto in Savoy,
has left his fortune to his native town,
on condition that each year a prize of
$2,000 be awarded to the most perfect
girl, both physically and morally. In
Savoy.
Mrs. Rebecca Kissack. of Philadel
phia. issued a challenge to race any
woman of 50 years or more up the
538 feet of stalls to the top of the city
hall on her one hundred and fourth
birthday, w'hich fell on September 14
The only competitors she barred
suffragists and aviators.
Roosts with accommodation /or two
million bats have been established at
San Antonio, Texas, for the purpose of
exterminating mosquitoes
In the Canton of Valais. Switzerland
the authorities have ordered that mo
tor cars on the high roads shall be pre
ceded by a horseman
over the Horseshoe and American
falls. Niagara no fewer than 15.000.000
cubic feet of water pass every minute
In the British museum, London, there
is a collection of coins estimated to
number upward of 350.000
British Empire In the Antarctic re
gion amounts to 1.500 square miles.
The sweetest part of the meal
Advice to the
Lovelorn
Ry Beatrice Fairfax.
TRY ANOTHER PLAN.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am a young man nineteen years
old and deeply in love with a girl
one year my junior, who works in
the same place as I do.
I take her home every evening
and also take her out two or three
times a week. I have told her of
my love and that 1 want to marry
her within three years. She is
aware of the splendid chance 1
have to make good in the place of
business.
I have given her a diamond
friendship ring, w hich she accepted
with the proposition that she will
some day be mine.
But when we are bidding each
other good night and in each oth
er's arms, she frankly admits that
she does not love me as Vet, but
that she is trying real hard to.
She admits that she likes me a
good deal.
Can love be accomplished by
trying or should it come natural
ly? D. E.
Love is not a matter of human will,
and no amount of trying can force
one's affections to grow.
But 1 am of the opinion that she
loves you and doesn't know it. Did
you ever suggest to her that you are
fond of some other girl? The fear of
losing you may awaken her to the
realization of how dear you are to her
TOO YOUNG TO KNOW.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am a young man of seventeen
and have been going with a young
girl one year my junior for over
three years. About two weeks ago
I met her with another gentleman
friend. The next time I met her
I asked her to go out with me. but
she refused. I can not understand
what is the matter, because we
have loved each other verv much.
JACK A
You are seventeen and have been
in love for three years with a girl now
sixteen. This would make you mere
babes in the wood when your love af
fair began.
My dear young man, do this for me.
For a few years put all girls out of
your mind. Apply yourself to work
and books and amount to something.
Then, w ith a man's heart and a man s
brain, go forth and win a woman who
w ill be a credit to your Judgment. Don't
wrong any girl of twelve or fifteen by
making love to her. She is too young.
WHY NOT ASK HER?
Dear Miss Fairfax;
I am nineteen and am in love
with a gill of seventeen. We used
to communicate very often, but for
the last few weeks I did not re
ceive ant letter from her. although
1 wrote her two in the meantime.
I know nothing can prevent her
writing Do you think she cares
for me? J.
It is wonderful how many men ask
that question to me: "Do you think
she cares for me?” When It is a ques
tion that should be so east to ask the
Kiri
Thia girl may not write because she
loves and wants her silence to bring
her that tardy avowal. Or she may
not write because “he does not love
and thinks the correspondence useless.
The only wav tot know la to ask her.
Up-to-Date Jokes
She —Can you manage a typewriter?
He —No. I married one.
He (triumphantly reading from a
newspaper)—“Suffragist speaker hec
kled by geese at a county fair.” Ha.
ha! Even the geese are against wom
an suffrage, my dear!
She (contemptuously)—That's be
cause they are geese.
Two old-age pensioners got to talk
ing about sight and hearing—a Scotch
man. aged 72, and an Irishman, aged 66.
The Scot said he could see as well as
ever. The Irishman asserted that he
could hear as w'ell as ever. '
“Do you see the deer walking along
the top of the mountain about sow
miles off?" said the Scot.
The Irishman looked and looked, then
said: “I can not see him, but I can bear
him walk."
Scottie went home.
Curran was one day engaged in a
case in which he had for a junior a
remarkably tall and slender gentleman
who had been originally intended to
take orders.
The Judge, observing that the ease
under discussion involved a question of
ecclesiastical law, Curran interposed
with—
"l refer, your honor, to a high au
thority behind me, who was once in
tended for the church, though in my
opinion he was fitter for the steeple."
Prince Arthur of Connaught’s allu
sion to the Englishman, "who could al
most tell when 'God Save the King' was
being played and when it was not,"
: ecalls another story.
Lord North neither appreciated musi.
nor tried to. On one occasion George
111 tried to coax him to a concert of
ancient music. “Your brother the bish
op never misses them." said the king.
"Sir." replied No: th. "were 1 as deaf
as my brother the bishop, I would nev
er miss them either."
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A FAILING OF FATHERS.
IYSANDER JOHN APPLETON
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He had to wait a half hour for hl*
dinner, and when it appeared the steak
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of Connubial Love. The bread was
soggy, and the potatoes had stayed in
the water too long.
Lysander John made no complaint.
He did not even smile sardonically
w hen his w ife talked of the great work
she was doing as a member of the
Making Home Beautiful club.
After dinner he tried to read, hut the
reading lamp needed oil. Then he
thought to read his paper by standing
under the chandelier, but the pup had
chewed the paper up.
He threw himself on the lounge, and
found an ’instant later that he had
thrown himself on the pet dog. The
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Daysey Mayme screamed.
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